Actions Quotes Logo

Taste Quotes

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't tha...

Show More

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injuriou...

Show More
Picture of Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...

Show More

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an ac...

Show More

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...

Show More

The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in "calories," which are little units that m...

Show More
Picture of Dave Barry
Dave BarryDave Barry's Guide to Life

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...

Show More

I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s ”Poker Face”]

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which w...

Show More
Picture of Diane Ackerman
Diane AckermanA Natural History of the Senses

Taste is the feminine of genius.

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...

Show More

Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycl...

Show More

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little ...

Show More

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

Show More

Taste may change, but inclination never.

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understoo...

Show More

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any o...

Show More

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have ther...

Show More

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself...

Show More

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphys...

Show More

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

Show More

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...

Show More

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...

Show More

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherev...

Show More

Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron...

Show More

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Picture of Janeane Garofalo
Janeane GarofaloFeel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...

Show More

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

Picture of John Ciardi
John CiardiThe Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t...

Show More

Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.

But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of thing...

Show More

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...

Show More

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even whe...

Show More

Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-...

Show More
Picture of Michael Pollan
Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

N
Nigel SlaterThe Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

Picture of P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'RourkeHow the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same...

Show More
Picture of Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre BourdieuDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cine...

Show More
Picture of Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre BourdieuDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having ...

Show More
Picture of Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre BourdieuDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

Show More

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But t...

Show More

It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the firs...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...

Show More

One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunch...

Show More

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

Show More

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part...

Show More

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is re...

Show More

A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish...

Show More

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it...

Show More

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the...

Show More

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...

Show More

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.